Keywords - L222.1

Chapter 1: Goals

• theory of language
• grammar of a language
• grammar
  • universal
  • particular
  • competence
    • grammatical
      • logical
      • pragmatic
  • performance
  • intuition
  • theory of language structure
    • syntax
    • morphology
    • phonology
  • theory of language acquisition
  • grammaticality
    • grammatical vs. acceptable
    • grammatical vs logical (semantic) acceptability
    • grammatical vs pragmatic anomaly
      
  • goals of a grammatical theory
    • observational
    • descriptive
    • explanatory
• indefiniteness
  • indefinite number of sentences
  • indefinite length of sentences
• constraining grammar
  • not a Turing machine
  • Autonomous Syntax:
    • Syntactic rules refer only to syntactic objects
• Semantics
  • Pure semantics
  • Conceptual semantics (unclear whether these are the same or different)
    • Conceptual semantics feeds grammar (esp. syntax and the lexicon)

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